Word: staringer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The little girl took a picture book, sat down under the table with her back to Tom, and slowly, carefully, examined each page. "It's got a crooked wheel," Tom said, "that's what it is." The little girl made no answer. She was staring at the book...
A Switch Thrown. In the train, those passengers who were not in on the plot became alarmed. Women tried to soothe screaming babies. A toothless old man jumped to his feet, staring wildly out the window. "You should have seen the coal smoke and soot from that locomotive," he said...
Requiem finds Temple and Gowan eight years older, but not much wiser. Bound by shame rather than love, they have married, have two children. Gowan is strictly on the wagon, but doubts that he is the father of the elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns...
"London night life goes on in the small private clubs from about 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. After this, if you want to go on drinking, you either go to a private party or retire to your hotel room and stare moodily at the wallpaper which, in London, has...
Director Hitchcock toys with this plot as lovingly as the crack-brained murderer, plays it for wry irony and unexpected humor as well as suspense. But he seems less interested in making his audiences believe in the story's outrageously rigged situations than in teasing, tricking and dazzling them...